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[powell]

Are there any good video tutorials?

[Neonivek]

Are there any good video tutorials?

Aurora has enough visuals to have a "Tutorial" on a video?

Is there a difference between that and a screenshot tutorial?

Also while there are video tutorials... as for "good" I am going to go no from my experience.

[Flying Dice]

Are there any good video tutorials?

Aurora has enough visuals to have a "Tutorial" on a video?

Is there a difference between that and a screenshot tutorial?

Also while there are video tutorials... as for "good" I am going to go no from my experience.

To put it simply, there would be almost no difference between doing a video of someone playing Aurora and a video of someone entering data into a spreadsheet. The only way to really learn is to do it yourself. Although there are things that can help. I think I posted a few links a page or two ago.

[powell]

I managed to learn most of DF on my own, however even with the wiki tutorials for Aurora it is proving difficult.  Thought maybe a video tutorial would help.

[Flying Dice]

I managed to learn most of DF on my own, however even with the wiki tutorials for Aurora it is proving difficult.  Thought maybe a video tutorial would help.

* MaximumZero fires up Aurora for the first time.

* MaximumZero is easily confused.

FUUUUUUUUUUUU-

my reactin was similar.
I checked the first tutorial (setting up games) then tried to self-teach as much as possible.

The thing is, the tutorial skips or skims over at least half of the basic information on the game, including proper missile design. Suppliment it by asking questions on here and reading through Steve's AARs (although those can be a little bit spoileriffic).

NATO V Soviet Union
Trans-Newtonian Campaign

Terraforming guide for Sol system-very useful, especially before you get the hang of it.

The wiki homepage.

[Repulsion]

It is kind of hard to compare learning DF and Aurora. They are pretty different games with different interfaces. Aurora is that much harder to learn precisely because it has a pretty crap UI and a very incomplete wiki. DF has a UI that you can easily come to terms with eventually, and a very in-depth wiki. Aurora in those aspects is a little... lacking.

[Tarran]

Oh, I just remembered: There ARE video tutorials for Aurora. Not sure how good they are, though.

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,4114.0.html

[Flying Dice]

Again, though, by far the best way to get used to the UI is to grapple with it constantly in a fog of rising frustration for as long as it takes to beat it into a state where you can easily get it to do whatever you want. Which is to say, forever. I'll admit that a certain part of my attraction towards Aurora lies in the fact that I figure out some neat new function or hidden corner of some window practically every time I play.

[Jacob/Lee]

Aurora has a mind numbing UI with a thousand different buttons, 500 of which do nothing tactically useful but do some RP related function. It took me longer to learn this game than Dwarf Fortress, which is saying something.

[Flare]

Are there any good video tutorials?

Aurora has enough visuals to have a "Tutorial" on a video?

Is there a difference between that and a screenshot tutorial?

Also while there are video tutorials... as for "good" I am going to go no from my experience.

To put it simply, there would be almost no difference between doing a video of someone playing Aurora and a video of someone entering data into a spreadsheet. The only way to really learn is to do it yourself. Although there are things that can help. I think I posted a few links a page or two ago.

A lets play is quite different than a tutorial . A tutorial for Aurora would be helpful. Everyone has to had some moment where they received help learning excel, and in this case, learning the relationships of the variables to each other. There is a great deal of explanation of the mechanics that happens in tutorials that just aren't in lets play.

[MaximumZero]

I picked up DF after about half an hour with CapnDuck's tutorials. I would kill for a good "show you how to get started and do useful things" tutorial for Aurora.

[Ypress]

I too want a video tutorial..

[Sheb]

Well, we could write it.

[LoSboccacc]

Siri think I can't talk english and she's probably right. but if there is a collaborative effort for a written tutorial, count me in!

[Mini]

Reading all ~8500 posts of this thread will probably clear up a few things too.